Salman Rushdie in Context

Description

Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie's life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging, published and read. This book reveals the evolving political trajectory around transnationalism, multiculturalism and its discontents, so prominently engaged with by Salman Rushdie in relation to South Asia, its diasporas, Britain, and the USA in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Focused on the aesthetic, biographical, cultural, creative, historical and literary contexts of his works, the book reveals his deep engagement with processes of decolonization, emergent nationalisms in South Asia, Europe and the USA, and diasporic identity constructions and how they have been affected by globalisation. The book traces how, through his fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie has profoundly shaped the discussion of important questions of global citizenship and migration that continue to resonate today.

Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Literature and Migration at the University of Bristol. His monograph Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination (2014) is published by Routledge. He was the Reviews Editor of Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing from 2010-22 and is now a trustee.